Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
Wikipedia
2025 year in review
Wikipedia is the largest knowledge resource ever assembled in the history of the world, and it’s freely available to everyone everywhere. It’s there when you want to learn about our changing world, win a bet among friends, or answer a curious child’s question.
Here’s a review of 2025 through the lens of Wikipedia. You can also check out the most popular articles of the entire year in our dedicated blog post.
Most viewed articles on English Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a reflection of the world and the people who live in it. Topics ranging from serious news to pop culture, and everything in between, rise to prominence on Wikipedia as curious people turn to it to learn more. Discover how our collective interests changed month over month this year.
January
February
Michelle Trachtenberg
Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (October 11, 1985 – February 26, 2025) was an American actress. She made her television debut in the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1994–1996) and her feature film debut in the 1996 comedy Harriet the Spy.
March
Adolescence (TV series)
Adolescence is a British television psychological crime drama series created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham and directed by Philip Barantini. It centres on a 13-year-old schoolboy, Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), who is arrested after the murder of a girl in his school.
April
Pope Francis
Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.
May
Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost, September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City. He is the first pope to have been born in the United States, the first to hold either U.S. or Peruvian citizenships, the first from the Order of Saint Augustine, and the second from the Americas.
June
Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (born October 18, 1991) is an American politician who is the mayor-elect of New York City. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, he has served as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 36th district since 2021, representing the Queens neighborhood of Astoria.
July
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne (3 December 1948 – 22 July 2025), also known as the “Prince of Darkness”, was an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath in 1968, and rose to prominence in the 1970s as their lead vocalist.
August
Weapons (2025 film)
Weapons is a 2025 American mystery horror film directed, written, produced, and co-scored by Zach Cregger. It stars an ensemble cast, and its plot follows the case of seventeen children from the same classroom who mysteriously run away on the same night at the same time.
September
Charlie Kirk
Charles James Kirk (October 14, 1993 – September 10, 2025) was an American right-wing political activist, entrepreneur, and media personality. He co-founded the conservative student organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) in 2012 and served as its executive director until his assassination in 2025.
October
Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer, serial killer, and body snatcher.
984 million
unique devices per month in English
2.4 billion
hours of reading in English
300+
languages and counting
4.6 billion
hours reading in all languages
Knowledge is human
Wikipedia is built by humans—volunteers from all over the world who create and curate all of its content, using reliable sources, according to the encyclopedia’s editorial policies and guidelines. The encyclopedia embraces standards of verifiability, neutrality, and transparency: each article has a history and talk page where you can learn how humans built it over time.
Nearly
250,000
editors worldwide
Edited
324
times per minute globally
Editors made 66.6 million changes this year
Over the course of 2025, volunteer editors made a total of 66,569,991 changes on 300+ different language editions of Wikipedia. From Germany to Japan and Argentina to Ukraine, editors dedicated themselves to recording and preserving the world’s knowledge and ensuring that everyone can access it. Without their collective efforts, much of what shapes our world today would be lost.
3.1 billion bytes added to English Wikipedia
Every hour of every day, volunteers are working to improve Wikipedia. Some people spend their time creating new articles or photographing historic places to upload to the site, while others fix typos or update facts. They also vigilantly defend against information that does not meet the site’s policies. The sum of all their work together leads to a steadily improving, fact-based, and reliable knowledge resource that they give to the world.
The future of knowledge is ours to protect
Thank you for exploring our 2025 Wikipedia Year in Review. Every day, we’re making it easier for millions of readers across the globe to find reliable facts in 300+ languages, on the largest repository of human knowledge in the history of the world!
With your help, the Wikimedia Foundation—the nonprofit behind Wikipedia—will continue to ensure that the information you rely on is ad-free and trustworthy, while keeping Wikipedia running smoothly with cutting-edge tools and technologies. Billions of people use Wikipedia, but only 2% of readers donate. Please consider joining this rare group of supporters by donating today. Whether it’s $3, $30, or any amount, every gift makes a difference. Thank you for your support.
Your year in review, next year on Wikipedia
Readers using the official Wikipedia mobile app are eligible for a personalized Wikipedia Year in Review! If you’ve used the app all year, personalized reading insights will be calculated locally using data on your device. If you haven’t tried it out yet, download and browse Wikipedia using the official Wikipedia app, and receive a personalized Wikipedia Year in Review for next year!
Appendix
Data in this microsite covers the following periods. It will be updated in January 2026 with data for the complete year of 2025.
The following data is accurate up to 30 June 2025:
- Nearly 250,000 editors worldwide
- Edited 324 times per minute globally
The following data is accurate up to 31 Oct 2025:
- Most viewed articles on English Wikipedia for each month of the year
- 984 million (984,016,520) unique devices per month in English
- 300+ languages and counting
- Editors made 66.6 million (66,569,991) changes this year in all languages Wikipedias
- Top 10 edited Wikipedias graphic
- 3.1 billion (3,136,804,808) bytes added to English Wikipedia
The following data is accurate up to 9 Nov 2025:
- 2.4 billion hours (2,376,881,343) hours of reading in English
- 4.6 billion hours (4,615,980,824) hours reading in all languages
For more information about the data used in this page, please visit the project page on MediaWiki.
